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in the east and north of England, and especially during his 
two extended Scottish tours. Of flowering plants he probably 
added but few to the list he gives of 359 species taken from 
Zoega’s ‘Flora Islandica,’ published in 1772, with the addition 
of twenty-two from his own observations and Sir George 
McKenzie’s collections. Babington, in his very valuable 
‘ Review of the Flora of Iceland ’ (Journ. Linn. Soc., xi. 1870, 
282), enumerates 433 Icelandic flowering plants, which is an 
increase of 96 species. 
The years immediately following my father’s return from 
Iceland (1809-12) were the most embarrassing of his life. 
His unquenchable longing to travel in the tropics was kept 
alive by Banks’s earnest endeavours to find him a fitting 
opportunity. On the other hand his botanical friends were 
unanimous in urging him to remain at home, publish his 
Icelandic and Scottish journals, continue his aid to Mr. Turner 
on the ‘ Historia Fucorum,’ and, above all, proceed with his 
‘ British Jungermanniae,’ his drawings and analyses of which 
were of unrivalled beauty, and his contemplated ‘ Muscologia 
Britannica.’ Meanwhile Mr. Turner, with real desire to benefit 
his young friend, induced him in 1809 to join in partnership 
with himself and Mr. Paget of Yarmouth (father of the late 
Sir James Paget) in a brewery at Halesworth, reside there, and 
undertake the management of a business for which he had 
neither experience nor inclination. This did not check either 
his botanical ardour or his desire to visit the tropics. In 
1810 he sold his landed property and determined to accept 
an invitation, which Sir Joseph had procured for him, of 
accompanying Sir Robert Brownrigg, G.C.B., the newly 
appointed Governor of Ceylon, to that island. To this end 
he appointed his father locum tenens at the brewery and 
proceeded to London, where amongst other preparations for 
the undertaking he made, at the Museum of the India House, 
reduced pen and ink sketches from upwards of 2,000 folio 
drawings of Indian plants \ which had been executed by native 
1 These drawings, now in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew, are 
